xix, 300 pages : 24 cm

Includes index

Machine generated contents note: FOREWORD ix -- PREFACE xi -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii -- A PRELIMINARY WORD TO NEW METHODISTS xv -- INTRODUCTION 1 -- 1. The Story Begins: The Lord's Horseman 5 -- 2. The Methodist Church Moves Westward 25 -- 3. The Black Church and the Civil War 50 -- 4. Turn of the Century: Post-Civil War to World War 1 63 -- 5. The Depression and Beyond 76 -- 6. The 1960s: The Gathering Storm 108 -- 7. Hearts Aflame: Civil Rights 123 -- 8. Years of Rage and Sadness: Vietnam 152 -- 9. The Era of Permissiveness: The Seventies 173 -- 10. Changing Values 188 -- 11. A Time of Transition: The Eighties 225 -- 12. The Nineties: We Methodists Find Our Way 246 -- 13. And Now for Our Bright Tomorrows 268 -- INDEX 296 -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR 300

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